Happy New Year everyone! I’m sure many of you have all sorts of resolutions to have a healthy 2011 so I thought I’d start this year with a very helpful idea to keep your resolutions in line. This one is sure to fatten your wallet and loosen your belt. I’m a big advocate of bringing [...]

You know the Holiday’s have officially arrived when you get to work every morning to an email that reads “Treats in the Kitchen”. This is what I came into on Monday morning: WHAT TO DO? Well for starters let me be honest before I dish out a bunch of advice on how to avoid eating [...]

There is this fantastic magazine in Ontario provided by the LCBO called Food and Drink , and every now and again I find an amazing recipe that I’m able to “health-ify” and then share with you! This great chicken recipe was in the Summer 2010 issue. Here is what I did with it: Leek, Chicken [...]

This is a great commercial put out by The New York City Heath Department. If you know anyone who still drinks pop, this is really worth a look. Click on the picture to see the video! Now they just need to make a commercial with a guy chugging a bottle of toxic chemicals sitting beside [...]

Ohhhhhhhhhh! I’m mad! This just goes to show you, you can’t always trust nutrition labels. Deep breaths! Here I go….. A few months ago I posted about a delicious tomato sauce that I became obsessed with. Here is the link to the post if you don’t remember it. The Tomato Sauce That LIED! I even [...]

Have you ever been to the restaurant Fresh? Well, if you have or have not they make this delicious ginger salad dressing. Now I am actually not a big ginger fan – but for some reason I LOVE THIS DRESSING! This is the dressing that makes you WANT to eat salad! No joke! My sister [...]

It is now THE LAW in the State of N.Y to post the Nutritional Breakdown of all restaurant foods. My cousin was just in the State and experience this for the first time. The following is her email to me after a dinner at The Cheesecake Factory. “We went to Cheesecake Factory tonight for dinner [...]

Ever since I moved form the States to Canada I have been obsessed with finding an alternative to my favorite Greek style yogurt: Fage.  Why they don’t sell it in Canada, I don’t know. Anyway, I think I found something! I love it because it has 20 grams of protein in it! Most yogurts have [...]

For some reason, sometimes when we go out for dinner it seems like all the fun is in the food we eat and the beverages we drink! Eating the bread, finishing ALL your dinner, having dessert, drinking a few glasses of wine! And for some reason, we get it in our little heads that if [...]

Chopped Chicken Curry Salad with Fruit Chutney 3 ounces chopped white meat chicken ( I used Rotisserie) 2 Tbsp Plain Non Fat Greek Yogurt ( If you can’t find Greek – just look for non fat plain) 1/2 tsp Curry Powder Dash of Cinnamon Salt and pepper to taste 15 Raisins 3 tsp Fruit Chutney [...]